Bally is a borough in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,090 at the 2010 census.

Bally was originally called Goshenhoppen, possibly deriving from an Indian word meaning meeting place. Others claim the broadcast derives from German settlers calling the area their haven or Hafen in German, eventually becoming Goshenhoppen. Mennonites and Catholics fixed it in the early 18th century. Clergyman Ulrich Beidler erected the first home of worship, the Mennonite Church in 1731. Father Theodore Schneider, a Jesuit priest, came to the Place in 1741 and standard what would be just the third Catholic mission church in the 13 original colonies. On land customary from the Mennonite community, Father Schneider built St. Paul’s Chapel in 1743. St. Paul’s is now known as the Most Blessed Sacrament Church, and it is the oldest existing Catholic place of veneration in Pennsylvania and the fourth oldest Catholic structure in the thirteen indigenous colonies.

In 1743, Father Schneider started a Catholic literary at the mission church. The school, originally called St. Aloysius Academy, also marked the beginning of Catholic education in the 13 original colonies. After several reveal changes, it is currently known as St. Francis Academy, and is the oldest currently working co-educational Catholic hypothetical in the nation.

To reflect the many churches in the town (as there were also several other churches in the area of stand-in denominations), Goshenhoppen was renamed Churchville. When the read out office was normal in 1883, the townsfolk changed the make known to “Bally” in memory of Fr. Augustine Bally, S.J., a Catholic pastor beloved by all, who had died the previous year. Bally was incorporated as a borough in 1912, with Henry Eddinger, son of Frederick K. and Sophia (Miller) Eddinger, appointed as the first Burgess. Bally has traditionally been a house of many Pennsylvania Dutch settlers and their descendants.